Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > The average consumer (and me too) will say it works with NS4.76 or IE5
> > but not with Mozilla, and therefore Mozilla is broke. For perfectly good
> > evidence of this, take a look at the bug page at how many times this has
> > been resubmitted. It is the largest number I have so far stumbled across
> > (though I have not looked at a lot).
>
> There's a bigger issue here. Who do we respect more? Old and broken
> browsers, or W3C and other internet standards (such as RFCs)? If we "find
> a meaning" for this sort of broken URL, what else should we guess at
> interpreting?
>
> Computers have to read this stuff, not humans.
>
> Gerv
The old Broken Browsers!
Standards are wonderful; but, if they declare 99.999% of what done on
the net currently wrong and unusable what good are the Standards.
The only thing that was "really needed" was remove handling of Java
through the browser, and creating a Plugin for Java that cause the
Browser to use the current Java Standards simply just uses the latest
Java as written (Transparently) and better handling of Style sheets.
New Standards shouldn't be created just for the sake of killing off old
standards that work efficiently.
Creating a new Standard should take into consideration the affect it
will have worldwide not just in a Lab, or school setting.
This WC3 stuff is like the Sony Betamax and JVC VHS Tape system war. W3C
being the Betamax system. You know what happened in the Betamax/VHS
format fight. VHS won because more people bough the VHS.
Browsers should be only written for the end user in mind.
If I as a end user can go to a page and that page comes up and I can see
the vendors information, that has satisfied my needs as a user. But If
that page doesn't come up or many of the windows don't show up, i will
try a different viewer until I find a viewer (browser) that I can see it
with. As a End User, I don't care if a Monkey wrote the page as long as
it passes along the information I care about.
A lot of these developers here (not all) remind me of a Lot of Teachers
I worked with in the school system I worked for as a Technician. all of
the ones I refer to were Phd's, kept their nose stuck way up in the air.
No body's opinion on a subject was worth a D... except theirs. They had
book sense, but not common sense.
I did know a few that didn't let the Doctorate do to their head and had
common sense as well.
In reality "everyone put their pants on the same way - one leg at a time".
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